The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-01-09
GEN ERAL NEWS.
CLOUDY and cool.
MEAN weather.

CLOUDY and cool.
MEAN weather.
BUSINESS very dull.
The Buckeye State has laid up at
Cairo.
ALL the local packets may leave TO-
IN aTTow.
THE Jamel Lee NAV leave tomorrow
evening for Helena and FriRTs Point.
The Arkansas, White and 81. Fran
els rivers are still frozen.
NAVIGATION ia suspended on the
Ohio river from Pittsburg to Cairo.
AL THOMAS, bill clerk Of the Helena,
left last night by rail for Greensboro, his
homo.
DURING the twentv.four hours end
ms, at noon yesterday, the river here fell s
inches.
TIE ics in the Mississippi at Green
fields Ferry 10 very thick aud teams are
crossing on IL.
TIM Rsne Macready and the Ed
Foster were towed up to point above the
mouth OF Wolf river yesterday.
THE Coahoma should arrive today
from Fnars Point and she may leave tomor.
EOh hNohlhk lNA NeNofAu VI Nihts
Tue Gavo'o came up 10 the wharf
yesterday. discharged h,r cargo and then
won't back to West Memphis and laid up.
THERE WAS little ice in the river yes.
terday, and navigation from this port south
will in all probability be fully resumed to-
day.
HENRY SEAMAN, the bic hearted and
accommodating second clerk OF the Helena,
Ill al until his hnuN alaTta nut
again.
THE Granite State was at the land
ing yesterday taking on rail Dad iron. nhe
ia announced to leave hero Tuesday for Gin
cinnati.
The repairs to the Chesapeake are
progressing, and II completed in time she
will probably leave tomorrow evening for
Tiptonville.
THE City OF Cairo left last night for
Vicksburg with i0l tons OF n i'eellAneous
freight. 81. head of stock, 20 cabin and 100
deck passengers.
CAPT. W. @. HARpwIcK, the corn
king, has a number Of boats loaded and
lying In q safe hsrbor in Greon river, await
ing the ice 10 run out so they may be sent
South.
The big Helena arrived yesterday
morning from New Orleans and put of 252s
SACKS oil COTTON bOeut o. Uhob uI COttuut ~
barr els Of molassos and 70 hoGshoads oil su-
gar. After dlschsrging her cargo the won't
up to the compress and laid up.
Kste Adams, Cast. Mark Cheek,
Is the regular United States mail packet
leaving tomorrow evening for Helena, Ter
rene, Concordia, Arkansas City and all way
landings. Mestrs. william Blanker, Lon
Hudson and Morris Cans are her clerks.
The Anchor Line appointments for
this year are: Capt. ii. @. Bixby goes on tho
CITY of Batoo dRGSu u GoPy H 4 whidsS
the place Of Capt. Dan Able, who goes on the
will s. Hays; Capt. A. j. Carter command.
the City Of New Dreams, Capt. q; Wash
Thorn son the Annie p. silver, and Capt.
James 0'Neal the City Of ST. Louis.
The Thomas Sherlock, from New
Orleans. arrived at Q o'clock yesterday eve
ming and let, at oSiSck s nsnd i0T
500 bales Of G ton which she got at Green
Vile and Vicksburg She put of at the Flo
vator IL hogsheads and Is barrels Of sugar,
400 empty hog heads and 10 packages, OF
sundries The Sherlock will probably lay
up at Cairo.
A CAIRO special ssyp: The John
al more will leave tonight for New Orleans
with three barges loaded and and one empty:
The latter she will leave at Belmont and
will leave tho loaded bargos thofe. She has
i0l tons Cairo freight in her tow. CAPT.
Herman Hill finished removing cotton from
the burned valley barge today. The trans
fer boats continue to make their trip be-
tween Cairo and Birds Point, having no
trouble to keep up commune ttOn. Large
quantities of i1e are running out of tn ohio
river today at rapid rat, and cover more
surface than yesterday. 1t seems to DO grad
naliy breaking up. 1t is predicted, however,
that sh uld this second cold spe continue. a
few days, the Ohio river will he closed TO
at am6oat traffic, and Cairo will be tempora-
rily the head OF navigation. Capt. 10. n W..
King and W. W. Corey, Of tho Valley Line,
also Capt. Thomas ", Shields, Of the An
chor Line, returned from st. Louis this
morning.